Dennis Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language. Ritchie and Thompson were awarded the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton in 1999.
Dennis Ritchie | |
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Dennis Ritchie at the Japan Prize Foundation in May 2011 | |
| Born | Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie September 9, 1941 Bronxville, New York, U.S. |
| Died | c. October 12, 2011 (aged 70) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BS) |
| Known for | ALTRAN B BCPL C Multics Unix |
| Awards | IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1982) Turing Award (1983) National Medal of Technology (1998) IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1990) Computer Pioneer Award (1994) Computer History Museum Fellow (1997) Harold Pender Award (2003) Japan Prize (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Lucent Technologies Bell Labs |
| Doctoral advisor | Patrick C. Fischer |
| Website | bell-labs |
Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007.
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